products HPC Products Altix ICE
SGI has released the latest generation of its Altix ICE, a fl exible, tightly integrated blade architecture based on the latest Intel Xeon (codenamed Sandy Bridge EP) processor series. This newest Altix ICE solution represents the fi fth generation of the high performance computing (HPC) solution, offering numerous advancements in performance and density, while addressing the ongoing need to consolidate computing cluster sprawl.
The next generation Altix ICE, with support for FDR Infi niBand, improves upon SGI’s robustly designed, integrated blade system. A broader range of options for compute nodes, topology types, Infi niBand fabric design,
Liquid Blade server
Boston now supplies Hardcore Computer’s high-performance server solution featuring Liquid Blade total liquid submersion cooling technology. The Liquid Blade technology helps solve many of the most complex and costly challenges plaguing the HPC enterprise sector today – escalating utility costs, increasing operational costs and the numerous costs associated with maintaining sophisticated cooling and environmental thermal control systems.
By housing eight servers within a 5U enclosure, the Liquid Blade offers high performance by harnessing the power of Intel’s Xeon 5600/5500 generation processors. These servers provide up to 12 computational cores, 48 threads and memory confi gurations as large as 384Gb. Full support for hybrid GPU compute technologies have been integrated into the product design, providing full support for Nvidia Quadro and
Tesla accelerators. The cooling effi ciency is assured by employing Hardcore Computer’s dielectric (non-conductive) cooling liquid, Core Coolant. Core Coolant has a 1,350 times greater heat rejection capacity by volume than air, keeping components cooler and providing greater reliability and sustained optimal performance. When application requirements demand high-speed connectivity and video processing power, the Liquid Blade can offer the most reliable connectivity options – including 1Gb/s Ethernet, 10Gb/s Ethernet and 40Gb/s Infi niBand. Each type of connectivity is available as an embedded option, freeing up one PCIE slot for a high-performance video card, GPU accelerator, additional I/O interconnectivity, fl ash storage or to support other application requirements.
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power, and cooling are available. The system is expected to scale to 2,304 cores in a single rack and boast several features, including: new ‘building-block’ blade enclosure design that offers an increase over the standard 16 to 18 blade slots and 36 compute nodes per enclosure; separable, upgradeable and independently scalable power shelves; choice of air cooling, bolt-on water cooling at the rack level, or optional liquid cooling at the compute node level; and industry standard 19-inch width SGI D-Rack and a custom rack design for high-density closed-loop deployment, enabling multiple-data centre environment support.
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RADIUS EX/VIGOR EX
NextComputing has upgraded its portable Radius EX and Vigor EX systems, which now support up to 96Gb DDR3 1066MHz ECC memory, making them suitable for graphics-intensive visualisation programs. With multiple enterprise- class processors, several terabytes of internal storage, and now up to 96Gb of memory, the Radius EX and Vigor EX have increased performance and response time for any task.
ParStream Transtec is now offering ParStream, a highly performing database solution for big data analysis. It is faster than conventional systems by a factor of 1,000, while at the same time reducing the hardware capacity requirements by a factor of 20. ParStream has been developed by the start-up company of the same name based in Cologne, Germany. ParStream makes effi cient use of the high degree of parallelism of current multi-processor architectures – ranging from standard CPUs to highly parallel Nvidia Tesla GPUs. It also uses a novel indexing method, the Highly Parallel Compressed Index. ParStream can also execute
The Radius EX and Vigor EX also feature easy access to internal components for fi eld service and upgrades; quad-core and six- core Intel Core i7 or Intel Xeon processors; up to seven PCI Express expansion slots; integrated Intel HD graphics or discrete professional graphics solutions from Nvidia and AMD; and multiple terabytes of fi xed or removable storage with multiple RAID options.
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queries on data immediately after a continuously running import, offering near real-time results, even with petabytes of data.
Application scenarios for ParStream exist at companies in a wide range of industries where big data analysis constitutes a challenge. Examples include network surveillance in the telecommunications industry, web analytics in e-commerce, smart grid management in the energy sector and the misuse of credit cards in the fi nancial sector. ParStream is also suitable for use in research fi elds such as climate model analysis or genetic research.
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